Kamui Shirou (司狼 神威 Shirō Kamui) is a X/1999 character that crossover Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE as one of the twin vampires. Their character traits might be similar but Kamui is not to be confused with Kamui.

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Kamui transfered to a public school in Tokyo at grade three in which he befriends the Monou siblings quickly. For the reason is that, no one wants to befriend him because he doesn't know his father. But still, Kamui managed to fight against the correspondance of reality and swear to himself that no matter what happens he will definitely protect the foundation of Fuuma and Kotori's happiness. He also swears to be Kotori's bride and promise to Fuuma that he will protect Kotori no matter what and never let her cry.

After some years later, Saya Monou, Fuuma and Kotori's mother died under suspicious circumstances and Tooru, Kamui's mother explained it that Saya's death was for their sake. Kamui doesn't know what it means and so the two left for Okinawa. Kamui experience another adjustment without his precious friends to go on and meddle with other people. He earns friends when he seek revenge for the two that causes him to school suspension. He mostly skip classes because his mother doesn't see scolding him a worth. In there, Tooru died, being enveloped by flames as his shadow sacrifice (anime) and of the earth (manga). Through his mother's death, he fulfills his mother's dying wish. Penetrating him to return to Tokyo because his destiny awaits him there.

Upon his arrival, he was challenged to a physic duel, a sign that others are aware of his power and of his return. He also meet Kotori and Fuuma and become involved with them. In Tokyo, the people that are involved for the end of the world gathers arround him. He meets Sorata Arisugawa and befriends him quickly. But then, another thing happened. The shinken that was supposedly belongs to him was stolen in the Togakushi Shrine and result the death of Kyougo Monou, Kotori and Fuuma's father. Kamui and Sorata meet Tokiko Magami, his aunt that tolds him that there is another sword that will be later on be born. But Kamui has no idea that the sword will be born out of his aunt. Slowly, he meets more people and Fuuma is undergoing personaliy change when he is confused of which future to choose. He ended up choosing to be a Dragon of Heaven to protect the world Kotori and Fuuma lives on. At his expense, Kotori becomes the first casualty and Fuuma awakens as his 'Twin Star' of the Dragons of Earth.

He falls under a catatonic state upon Kotori's death and Subaru saves him from his sorrows. Right after, the Dragons of Heaven gathers and sealed the shinken in CLAMP Academy until the time that he will be needing it. Afterwards, many events happen and deaths of the ones precious to him continouly follows. With those events, he blames himself that he wanted to die ahead.

When the barriers in Tokyo are finally over and Tokyo tower is the last one left, the Dragons of Heaven lost their power to create a kekkai and the will to protect others, Kamui made his final confrontation with Fuuma and realize his wish. He was killed by Fuuma in the end. But he won and was able to return Fuuma the way he is. His body dissolves into light and made a kekkai in shape of a perfect sphere, a kekkai that he never able to create at first.

Kamui's name is spelled as 神威; which means Shin'inot as カムイ; which means Kamuy. While Kamui's last name is spelled as 司狼; which means Tsukasa Wolfnot as 白; which means white. Kamui's name is not just any ordinary name given to other characters in the series. His name has its own purpose that fits not only his character but also his destiny.

His given name 神威 is composed of two kanjis神 which means kami for 'God' and 威 which means takeshi for 'Authority'. Kamui's name written as 神威 means 'the one who represents the authority of God being favored by God his will and power to protect the world'. While, his name also its opposite meaning which means 'the one who hunts the authority of God being favored by God his will and power to destroy the world'.

Kamui appears as a young teenager with his eyes as his most striking feature, which is hardly surprising considering that he is a CLAMP character. Although some of the official art differs, his eyes are generally purple or bluish in hue. Purple eyes, which technically can occur in real life but are rare, are often used in manga or anime to indicate that a character is mysterious or powerful. In the anime, Kamui's eyes are instead amber colored, which is interesting since that is the color of Fuuma's eyes in the manga. Apparently gold/amber colored eyes are also associated with power, but also with a more animalistic side, Eyes of Gold. In either case, his eye color marks him as special and powerful. Whether he is angry, sad, or just gloomy, Kamui's eyes are extremely expressive. Also notable about his eyes is the fact that he has very thick eyebrows, just like Sorata and Daisuke. In fact, most of the male characters in X have rather thick eyebrows for some reason.

His hair color is black, but that is also true for most of the characters in the series. His hair is relatively short, tapering off at his neck, but it is also rather thick and wavy. His hair is distinct in that it is layered in the back, longer than most of the other male characters, and has considerable volume. his bangs hang dramatically over his eyes, allowing him to appear even more miserable and mysterious.

Simply by looking at Kamui, one would not be inclined to believe that he is one of the two most powerful beings in the world. For one thing, his figure is considerably thin, almost feminine. He does have broad shoulders but his waist is very thin. Also, unlike many of the other characters, Kamui is pretty short, even though his height is listed at 5'7". Upon meeting him, Yuzuriha, the shortest character from the Dragons of Heaven, remarks on his short stature, saying that he is only a little taller than she is. When he tries to leave, she worries that she hurt his feelings because he is sensitive about his height. Sorata also tends to jab him about his height in the beginning, and Kamui's reactions are sometimes quite angry.

In some CLAMP works, he resembles Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, wherein the latter's appearance was based onto him.

Kamui was introduced in both the series and anime as a cold, ruthless and reckless young man. He doesn't care if it involves other people and destroy public properties. It was only later on that he do so in order to distance himself from others and protect them in the process because of the burden he carries since he was a child and of his fate. It slowly appears that he cares deeply towards Kotori and Fuuma, who were the first ones to see his kind-hearted and gentle side. It was due to the fact of his affection for Kotori and his friendship with Fuuma.

After he chooses to be a Dragon of Heaven, Fuuma's betrayal and Kotori's death, Kamui slowly opens up with his comrades who at first, he considers as his enemies as well. He slowly becomes much more open to them, but at the same had been clouded with fear and guilt, especially upon knowing that he only makes the Dragons of Heaven hurt because of him. He then tends to worry about them being the protective and caring person he had always been, due to the fact that his comrades had sacrificed their happiness and even their lives just to protect him.

Kamui is indeed powerful among the other characters who seems to have powers as well. Like them though, he is capable of leaping until fifty feet high and land without any mark of injury. Compared to the others, in contrary, he heals twice faster than a human and faster than an ordinary seal. But compared to the others who only got to have a distinct power, Kamui seems to possess most of them.

Although he does not manipulate a natural element in the way Karen manipulates fire or Seiichirou manipulates wind, he can create giant blasts out of his own psychic or spiritual power, which might be called psychokinesis. When preparing to fight, he appears to gather energy around himself and can direct in order to hurt opponents (like during his fight with Daisuke) or break through spells (like during his encounter with Seishirou in the Diet Building). Unlike Subaru and Sorata, who use spells, talismins, and so on, Kamui's power appears to be mostly directed by his own will. His psychic powers also make him super strong as well as super agile and fast. Additionally, he is able to sense other people's power and auras and it is because of this ability that he was able to detect that something was considerably wrong with Hinoto. Unfortunately Kamui's psychic strength, while demonstrated in the first few volumes, mostly falls apart once he actually chooses a side. He is still capable of summoning considerable power, but he is often overcome. Although he is apparently a match for Dark Kamui in terms of literal power, his will, and thus his fighting ability, is considerably dampened by his indecisiveness.

His second most remarkable ability is that he can wield the weapon known as the Shinken, also referred to as the Holy Sword or Sacred Sword, what appears to be a very ornate long sword (the blade seems a little thick to

Kamui's sword, Shinken.

be a rapier). There are actually two swords called the "Shinken", one for each Kamui, and both swords were born from the body of a woman who was ripped apart when the sword manifested. Although others handle the sword at different points in the story, it is exclusively the right of the Kamui's to use them during the final battle and unleash their full power. Others, such as Yuzuriha and Arashi, also wield magical weapons (swords specifically) but neither of them quite match the power of the Shinken.

Although it is a rather minor point, Kamui, like many others in the story, has visions of the future in his dreams. Unlike the Dreamseers such as Hinoto and Kotori who can slip into the dreams of others as well as see the future, his visions remain fairly limited to one particular event which is Kotori's mutilation and murder.

There is one major power that, up to this point in the manga, Kamui lacks and that is the ability to form a kekkai, which is a protective barrier Seals can create that prevents the damage done during a battle to impact the real world. The exact design of the kekkai varies depending on the creator, but the purpose is to protect innocent people from getting involved in battles. The only way that those inside the kekkai can get out is if the Seal takes it down or if that person dies. At first this wasn't an issue because he cared very little about the impact his psychic battles had on the landscape, but eventually it becomes a problem for him and he worries about his inability to create one. When he asks the others how they are able to create their Kekkai, they reply that the power comes from their desire to protect something. It might be that during the final battle Kamui will realize his true wish and find something he wants to protect enough to create a Kekkai.

In the anime, it was revealed that Kamui was able to make a barrier field in a shape of perfect sphere.

Kamui made a short appearance in Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE but he represents one of the major roles. Kamui has a different persona and different details unlike in X/1999. For more information, check the link for Kamui in TRC.